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Preferred Networks

AI · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2014 Unicorn

Vertically integrated AI hardware and software solutions

Valuation
$1–2.5B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$50–100M
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
100–500
Current team size
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Investors

15 investors on Preferred Networks's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
NTT
Series A 2 investors entered at this stage
Toyota Motor Corporation
FANUC
Series B+ 12 investors entered at this stage
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank
Mizuho Capital
Wacom Technology Corp.
Hitachi
Mitsubishi
Kodansha
TBS Innovation Partners
Mitsui Global Investment
SBI Group
Development Bank of Japan
Sekisui House

Global footprint

Where Preferred Networks has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
7 countries with
team presence
🇯🇵 Japan96.6%
🇺🇸 United States1%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong0.6%
🇨🇭 Switzerland0.5%
🇵🇰 Pakistan0.5%
Top 5 of 7 shown
Web traffic by country
1.7K monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan1747.1%
🇺🇸 United States247.1%
🇮🇳 India235.3%
🏳️ Korea205.9%
🏳️ Republic of141.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$55M patent portfolio · 164 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$55M
2.7% of valuation · 757.4× the top peer Anaconda ($72k)
164 active patent families
Where Preferred Networks innovates Information processingData scienceData miningAlgorithmTheoretical computer science

Where Preferred Networks concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Preferred Networks and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Preferred Networks

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Preferred Networks on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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